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(No Mode l.) F. 0. WEIR & N. 0. GOLDSMITH.

GABLE AND RAILWAY CROSSING.

No. 402,875. Patented May 7, 1889..

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' UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FREDRIC CANDEE WEIR AND NATHANIEL O. GOLDSMITH, OF CINCINNATI, OHIO, ASSIGNORS TO THE WVEIR FROG COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

CABLE AND RAILWAY CROSSING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 402,875, dated May 7, 1889.

Original application filed May 24, 1888, Serial No. 274,912. Divided and this application filed October 18, 1888. Serial No.

288,477. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, FREDRIc OANDEE WEIR and NATHANIEL O. GOLDSMITH, citizens of the United States, and residents of Cincinnati, in the county of Hamilton and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cable and Railway Crossings, of which the following is a specification.

Our invention relates to a combined cable and railway crossing.

The object of this invention is to provide a strong, durable, and effective crossing,wherein the slot-rails and the railway-rails are firmly secured together and supported.

The features of our invention will be fully set forth in the description of the accompanying drawings, making a part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 is a side elevation of the railwayrails and their supports, showing the T-rails and cable-road rails in section. Fig. 2 is a section at right angles to Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a detail view of one of the parts. Fig. 4 is a modified form of slot-rails.

l 1 represent the slot-rails.

2 represents the center or side bearing girder cable-rails.

3 represents one of the ordinary T-rails of a crossing. It is necessary to thoroughly support the steam-railway rails, to prevent as much as possible the strains upon the cablerails. This we preferably accomplish by means of I-beams 4 and 5, the I-beam 4 being continuous and forming the substructure of the railway-support, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2. The I-beams 5 are bolted firmly to the I-beam 4 and out it so as to form an opening or passage, 6, under the slot-rails. In order to support the rails 3 and to sustain the weights on the structure supporting them, we connect the slot-rails to the T-rails by means of knees 7, to one angle of which are bolted firmly the T-rails 3 by bolts 8, the other arm being firmly connected to the slot-rail by bolts 9. Similar knees and bolts are employed to connect the girder-rails to the T-rails. It is desirable to have the heads of the cablerailway rails and the steam-railway rails on the same plane. To accomplish this we slot or gain out the T rails to receive the head of the railway-rails 2, and the remaining portion of the T-rail 4 may be cut away, as shown in Fig. 4, so as to abut against the side of the slot-rail; or the slotrails 1 may be cut away su tficiently to allow the entire portion of the T-rail to project through the gain cut in the slot-rail. This gain is cut sufficiently wide to provide a space, 10, on one side of the T-rail, as shown in Fig. 2, for the passage of the flanges of the car-wheel. Either form shown in Fig. 2 or 4 may be employed, as the knee-brace and I-beams and the builtup structure 4 and 5 furnish sufiicient support for the crossing of the slot-rails.

In order to more efiectually support the flange of the slot-rail, we provide a stiffening- -piece, 11, which is bolted to the under side of the slotrails by means of rivets or bolts 12. This stiffening-piece 11 is notched at 13, corresponding to the space 10, occupied by the flanges of the car-Wheels. The notch 14 in said filling-piece is made to receive the head of the T-rail, (indicated at 15.)

WVedo not claim, broadly, herein the notches of the slot-rails to receive the head or any portion of the railway-rails, or any portion of the railway-rails lying Within the slots or gains, as that is made a subject-matter of our application, Serial No. 274,912, filed May 24, 1888, this being a subdivision of said application with modifications.

It is manifest that the method of construction is adapted to any street-railway or cable railway crossing cable railways as well as steam-railways; but for convenience of illus tration we have shown a steam-railway rail crossing cable-railway rails, as this form of construction requires a more solid construction and firmer support.

Having described our invention, what we claim is- 1. A railway cable crossing composed of the steam rails cut in sections and fitting the slot and tram rails and supported by the sectional I-beam girders 5 upon either side of the slot rails 1, and a continuous girder, 4, having the cable-grip space 6, substantially as herein specified.

2. A cable=railway crossing composed of the steam rails cut in sections and fitting the slot and tram rails and supported by sectional I-beam girders 5, and a continuous girder, 4:, rigidly connected to the sectional girders 5, substantially as herein specified.

3. A cable-railway crossing composed of the crossing-rail cut in sections abutting and fitting the edges of the slot-rails and lying between the girder-rails which abut the same upon either side, and said sections being firmly connected to the girder-rails at the crossing angles and supported by a continuous girder forming a substructure under the crossing, substantially as specified.

4. A cablea'ailway crossing composed of the 

